Decentralised ledger technology (DLT) has immediate applications in the context of fraud prevention and security as it provides financial institutions with the ability to maintain a centralised ledger of transactions
Over the past decade, the financial industry has begun to embrace a series of innovations that have the potential to dramatically change the nature of the business in the future.
Implement a suitable framework for successful delivery by formulating the strategy, executing the strategy and ensuring execution is guided by governance.
Cloud Computing, by Nikit Kothari, executive director The use of cloud computing has been gaining some serious momentum in Financial Services in recent years. With an increased focus on cost efficiency, continuing to deliver against a very aggressive technical roadmap has become the norm in our current financial environment. Revenues are now growing based on […]
DevOps, the combination of development and operations, has been proven to improve the performance of the software development lifecycle. Despite this, and the fact that is has been an emerging practice across organisations for a while now, there are many reservations surrounding its implementation. A process which can easily be plugged into the overall structure […]
Balancing testing speed and release quality is one of the biggest challenges in software engineering. Even if you can keep up with testing the new functionality of a release, the continuous needs of testing the ever-growing regression scope can often seem unattainable. Regression testing is performed when changes are made to the existing functionality of […]
Brickendon Consulting has been nominated as a finalist in two categories of the DevOps Industry Awards. Brickendon, two-time winner of the European Software Testing Awards, won its first ever finalist nomination in the DevOps Awards for a project which reduced testing and business analysis time by around 80 per cent and significantly cut overall costs […]
Recent news that a 20-day Poker tournament ended with a robot beating the world’s four best players and amassing $1.7 million in chips has been described as a crushing defeat for humanity, but a major milestone for artificial intelligence (AI). It’s not the first time that phrase has been used and definitely won’t be the […]
What is Software Complexity? In software development, ‘complexity’ refers to the nature and number of interactions between entities within a system, rather than to the complexity of the task that the system performs. As a system is developed, it is likely that the number of entities will grow, and with this the number of interactions […]